"CLOUD DRAWING"
Go outside and look at the clouds - draw the first thing you see that resembles something.
by

Hawktoey

We will try to post one of these topics once a day for your enjoyment.

These are the rules:
* Post only your FINAL piece on this thread, based on the topic on the thread.
* RESOLUTION : The image can have any aspect ratio up to 800 x 600
* They can be done on any medium.
* If you wish, you can add a brief text description about your piece.
* Only original compositions. No "tributes" or plagiarizing, unless is it an integral part of the challenge.
* The topics will be posted every day between 10:00 - 12:00 am US EST.
* The artist also has to post total length of time it took (Thanks Clanger for the idea) and program used.
* Only final pieces can be posted on the thread. They must have been done AFTER the topic has been announced.
* Any piece caught breaking the rules will be taken off the thread.
* The topics will be picked at random from the list on this thread
(The author will be given credit). So guys keep them coming.
*You can add multiple entries, but please dont post WIP (Unless you intend to update them). NEW RULE!
* Ill post ANOTHER thread to quantify and track WHO has participated the most on these threads.

damned clouds... i can't believe how difficult it is to paint those fluffy things... or am i the only one, who had problems to paint it...???:eek: it took me at least 3 attempts!!!
ok, have to calm down... i need a beer... :D

http://www.mathias-huber.com/images/cloud_painting.jpg

great entries so far!
cyanid, i like your castle in the clouds very much!:applause:

best wishes
Salamander

AnimZiggy

06-12-2005, 02:16 PM

Augustus: I wish the sky was boring here...Starting to hate english weather a lot. Although it's good for painting clouds.
Every one good work!
Here's my first attempt on clouds, so be gentle..and do make some comments.

And question: is the image to bright or to pale? I can't see it, it's this damn laptop monitor...could use some feedback on that. thanks.

There's nothing but disgustingly blue skies and fluffy goodness in my part of the world right now. 5 minutes of painting plus 2 minutes of running back and forth between my window and my desk. XD Trying to sketch more, and keep everything loose. Coulds are my secret love of painting, so I can't spend any more time on this because then I'll tighten it up too much. PS 7.0

That blob in the upper left is so definately a fish.

http://www.navate.com/images/speed/clouds.jpg

Kalorlo

06-12-2005, 04:31 PM

Maidith: Wow! That's lovely.

http://www.kellyhouse.force9.co.uk/art/clouddrawing.jpg

Photoshop, about an hour and a half, perhaps? It takes me a long time to do clouds and I could have kept working away at this for hours.

paperclip

06-12-2005, 04:45 PM

Decided to do another one, inspired by some photos of the lake near my home. Tried to eye-match the colors, no mean feat let me tell you!
http://img288.echo.cx/img288/113/cloud26he.jpg

FiYoG

06-12-2005, 05:00 PM

The only clouds out right now are some extremely thin cirrus clouds--hardly visible. So I just doodled out my own
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v169/fiyog/cd.jpg
:rolleyes:

Squibbit

06-12-2005, 05:15 PM

so we had a little sunshine today anyway, so
I get to paint this :D

dat's my house in da bottom of the pic
and dat's me lookin at the wowzers sky

tribute to Derek Riggs and Iron Maiden obviously
(Riggs painted most of their album covers)

yea hey we had kinda similar ideas there ziggy

stunning sky, maidith , u rulez.

http://www.saunalahti.fi/panuom/intheclouds1.jpg

navate

06-12-2005, 05:28 PM

Really wanted to do one with more fun color in it, so I went into my photo reference folder for inspiration. Blue skies are sooo boring. D:

10 minutes, PS 7.0

http://www.navate.com/images/speed/clouds2.jpg

bealobo

06-12-2005, 05:34 PM

maidith: you're talented! nice sky!

well, at this moment my computer is in a cave like room so ... no sky. Therefore I invented one.
:D I tried to follow the Stalhberg tutorial (http://www.androidblues.com/cloudtut.html)with little success... anyway, it is supposed to be a woman.
30 minutes in photoshop + wacom.

http://photobucket.com/albums/y11/bealobo/40-clouds.jpg

cengizakin

06-12-2005, 05:40 PM

hi., squibbit, salamander coral, maidith and all good jobs.:thumbsup:

ps+acecad tablet 10 mins.

http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y49/sogan_renderer/Clouds.jpg

cLos71

06-12-2005, 05:54 PM

There must be a thunderstorm coming your way. Very cool clouds Squibbit!

Maidith

06-12-2005, 06:48 PM

Thank you, everyone :)
You've got great clouds. *_*

paperclip - you have got a CI, too? :eek: Cool!^^ How much or less do you hear, and since when do you have it?
I'm almost deaf from my birth on, but with the CI (which I received in January 1999) I can hear very well in a quiet environment, and understand maybe the half of what's said on TV. =D

navate I love your clouds. <3 So beautiful!

cLos71

06-12-2005, 06:51 PM

Actually we have very lame clouds here today, so I had to fluff them up.
http://www.carlosvegadesign.com/CGT/cvClouds.jpg

Squibbit

06-12-2005, 07:03 PM

Actually we have very lame clouds here today.

lol , hey, what u think inspired my pic?
i got angry at the endless grey so i decided
to spice it up some :D

i think it carried a bit of a magic with it, cause
soon after i'd started it the clouds pulled aside a bit
and as i mentioned before we even got to see
the sun for a while

.

Octothreat

06-12-2005, 07:23 PM

What a great day for a cloudless sky....

SoniaNotRed

06-12-2005, 07:32 PM

Clouds were no good here either today... :shrug:
I used one of the loads os cloud photos I've taken as reference - one where they look like foamy waves near the beach. It didn't turn out very good, though...
I think I'll make another (love clouds! :p )

http://nekoi.no.sapo.pt/Asai/372%20-%20Cloud%20Drawing.jpg

About an hour in PS (a lot of fooling around with colors...).

Squibbit

06-12-2005, 07:33 PM

lol , even without pics u get good laughs in here!

guess u gotta improvise too, Octothreat

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pierceda

06-12-2005, 07:35 PM

Saw this outside my window a few minutes after reading the topic and had to commit it to memory, cause the clouds are moving fast today.

paperclip - you have got a CI, too? :eek: Cool!^^ How much or less do you hear, and since when do you have it?
I'm almost deaf from my birth on, but with the CI (which I received in January 1999) I can hear very well in a quiet environment, and understand maybe the half of what's said on TV. =D

navate I love your clouds. <3 So beautiful!

Ditto, but I got mine 9 years ago. It's improved my speech so much, it's amazing. I'll PM you, so as not to hijack this thread.:scream:

cecile

06-12-2005, 09:05 PM

Today the sky is borelingly blue here, no cloud for the past 4 hours ***sigh*** :rolleyes:

Zeoyn

06-12-2005, 09:06 PM

Hi Folks!
To everyone who is having trouble with clouds I recommend 2 tutorials from 2 of the greatest CG masters of our time:

oh and thanks for the links zeoyn, gotta check these out ... i suck at drawing clouds :)

Vyse-soa

06-12-2005, 09:59 PM

trooper Cloud

Yeah, this rocks man, Iron Maiden were playing today open Air in my hometown
:buttrock:

Stevansche

06-12-2005, 10:36 PM

genie in a bottle ??

foto made with cameraphone
30min? ps/wacom

http://home.kabelfoon.nl/%7Emoehama/pics/WOLKEN.jpg

Cyanid

06-12-2005, 11:02 PM

telemaco: great art! you have a great style, I love it so much. Did you ever illustrate a book or smt?

Telemaco

06-12-2005, 11:07 PM

No, I didn't. But i'd like to.
Thx!

Telémaco

Vyse-soa

06-12-2005, 11:12 PM

While chilling at the lake, I actually saw a really impressive cloud formation, that remind me of this fameous picture of the exploding Hindenburg Zeppelin.

http://homepage.hispeed.ch/welkesblatt/hindenburgcloud.jpg

http://homepage.hispeed.ch/welkesblatt/hindenburgcloud.jpg

Hawktoey

06-12-2005, 11:20 PM

I want to say I can't believe the entries! I would love so much to comment on each one but I think it would take allot of space to do. I am going to go see what I can do to get something done for this one.

Hawktoey

06-12-2005, 11:58 PM

Okay here's mine. The cloud coverage here is non-existant today. Storm coming through and the sky is all grey. Nothing distinguishing there. So I played with Painter and here are some clouds. I really use the idea of looking to the clouds to paint/draw an image not the actual clouds. Think of them as mother natures ink blots.
Again I can't state how wonderful all the entries are!

ysvry

06-13-2005, 01:05 AM

i had a very nice chicken curry , thank you. great entrys , one question though is copying a foto considered sketching too? i always thought it was quickly drawing from the head ?
maybe we should make a daily fotocopy thread too :P
Whats ic stand for? i dont mind reading about that stuff always its ok to broaden your horizon.

and HERE (http://www.kadewski.com/2d/KDW050612_clouds_orig.jpg) is a reference foto I had taken today ;)

angsty_carrot

06-13-2005, 03:55 AM

This is my first post here - so here goes nothing.

http://i13.photobucket.com/albums/a252/angsty_carrot/CG6_12.jpg

Gord-MacDonald

06-13-2005, 04:16 AM

ps 0.5hrs

Lousy cloud weather

http://cg2020.com/dailysketch/cloud1.jpg

Gord

DoInferno

06-13-2005, 05:45 AM

telémaco. I just freakin love your pic man! Great style!

jeroentje

06-13-2005, 06:00 AM

Reworked some background I did last week.

Photoshop, 3hrs

http://www.jeroencoert.nl/daily/dsf_clouds.jpg

Sneakybunny

06-13-2005, 06:44 AM

after work, wacom, 48mins bored.

http://img297.echo.cx/img297/3819/clouds2qi.jpg
hamsters...

cLos71

06-13-2005, 06:54 AM

..what time is it over in New Zealand?

Falcorr

06-13-2005, 07:45 AM

Sorry no time to look at the pics so no comments. Ill comment later
Here is my work Eye in the sky.

2 hours with PhotoshopCS .. no reference used.

http://www.kolumbus.fi/kamarainen.juha/Y2_Doodle007_temp.jpg

Telemaco

06-13-2005, 07:54 AM

>i had a very nice chicken curry , thank you. great entrys , one question though is copying a >foto considered sketching too? i always thought it was quickly drawing from the head ?
>maybe we should make a daily fotocopy thread too :P
>Whats ic stand for? i dont mind reading about that stuff always its ok to broaden your >horizon.

I think you can use any reference you want, photo, landscape, real model or what you see... eventually your drawings are the way you see the world around you or the way you xpress what you feel. The sketching concept itself is in the quickness...

Telémaco

Squibbit

06-13-2005, 07:56 AM

ok you're on holidayz then , i was wondering why u hadn't showed up
at work yet, hehe

that pic looks like them weird clouds that appear when a plane breaks
the sound barrier

well, heres mine PS/wacom about 1 hour. clouds and some haze but no guitar;)
http://www.dplays.se/cgtalk/372.jpg

bealobo

06-13-2005, 12:34 PM

great sketches evryone.
jeroetje: really nice one!

MVDB

06-13-2005, 05:46 PM

Sorry! I'm a bit late, but here goes...

Nice entry's all :bounce:

http://i16.photobucket.com/albums/b26/MichaelMotion/DSG372.jpg

Ego

06-13-2005, 08:32 PM

Beautiful entries here. I know am late but better late than never. Photoshop and painter 45 minutes. By the time I had a chance to draw, clouds had gone in, so I used the clouds in my head. http://www.littlelilly.com/clouds.jpg

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